Federal Police request extension of inquiry into Dark Horse financing

The Federal Police (PF) requested on Friday (16) that Supreme Federal Court (STF) Justice André Mendonça extend, by 90 days, the inquiry investigating payments made by former banker Daniel Vorcaro for the film Dark Horse, the biopic of former president Jair Bolsonaro. According to the delegate in charge of the investigation, Anderson Rodrigo Andrade de Lima, the extension is necessary to complete forensic accounting work and to await the processing of the international cooperation request with the United States to obtain financial records of foreign entities that allegedly received transfers. PF investigators are also reviewing documents provided by businessman Antônio Carlos Freixo Júnior, the whistleblower in the Master case. The documents would prove transfers to the investment fund Havengate Development, created in the United States to receive the payments for the film. The case reached the Supreme Court after federal congressman Lindbergh Farias (PT-RJ) requested an investigation into the request for money made by Senator Flávio Bolsonaro (PL-RJ), a candidate for President of the Republic, to Vorcaro to cover the filming costs. The film portraying Bolsonaro's political life came to light after the website The Intercept revealed that the senator asked Vorcaro for money to finance the filming. After the conversation between Flávio and Vorcaro was made public, which took place in November of last year, the senator denied having arranged any improper advantage with the banker and said the funds were private. In July of this year, Flávio Bolsonaro was included in the inquiry and also became a subject of the investigation.